Our Hike to....Well Nowhere

Well the other day we decided to go hiking. Josh had heard about a place from people at work and it sounded like a lot of fun. Waterfalls with pools to swim in, thermally heated pools to swim in as well. Sounds fun right. Since we are not from the area I made sure to look it up online and find out as much as I could. I found out where we had to drive to and what picnic ground to park in and that there were many trails so even if some proved to be too long for Keegan there were still options.

After looking online we decided on one that said it was .2 miles (yes 2 tenths of a mile) sounds perfect right, short hike and you get to a couple of places to swim. Well we get up the canyon and find the ranger station. It says that it is 2 miles not 2 tenths of a mile. Way too long for the little man, especially since he still demands on being carried to the car when we leave a grocery store. Knowing that I read about other places to hike to right at that same spot we still head up. We get to the map at the trail head and sure enough, the pools are way too far for K. So instead we decide to go to the waterfall that looks to be just about 1 mile in.

So we set out. Keegan with his hiking stick that he made with Grandma Sue

He was a real trooper, never asked to be carried just kept going.
After we had been hiking for a little while Keegan decided he needed lunch. So he and I stopped and ate. Josh ran ahead to see where the turnoff for the water fall was. We had to be close but Keegan was sure he would starve if we didn't stop. So here is the view from where we ate lunch.

His hiking stick is equiped with a feather and a bell to scare bears. He now thinks that bears are everywhere. Including our shower and closets. Don't worry though, he scares them away before they can do any damage.

After waiting for Josh for what seemed like forever, we were losing our shade so we moved about 50 feet up the trail to a much shadier spot. The whole while wondering what kind of boy scout leaves his group. Apparently our move made us hidden from Josh's view cause somehow he couldn't see us. So this was our view from our new "hidden" rock. After waiting for an hour we decided to go back down the trail and see if he was somehow down there.

Sure enough after playing in the water for a minute Josh came back up the trail to find us coming down. After a minute of minor disagreeing we discovered that he never found the turnoff anyway. So our hike to a waterfall turned into a hike to nowhere really. We all had a good time anyway, Keegan turned out to be quite the little hiker. Maybe we will try again and who knows maybe we will actually find that waterfall.

Oh and after coming home I got back on-line and found that many people have complained that the trails are poorly marked and that there are many trails that just end up looping you back around. Glad I found that out after we made one of those loops.